background and purpose: learning style is the processing of information and comprehension. if teachers present contents in a style that matches a student’s preferred learning style, academic performance and success will improve. if content retention improves it will result in an increase in the test scores. it is also important to determine if students, as a group, fit into a particular style o...

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Parasitic infestations of the hepatic biliary tree most commonly involve Ascaris lum− bricoides, which infects an estimated 25 % of the world s population [1]. These infec− tions are increasing in the developed countries due to world travel and popula− tion migrations. Individuals may be asymptomatic. When symptoms occur, they include pulmonary and hypersensi− tivity manifestations, and intesti...

stress is a natural phenomenon in sport competitions. an athlete may maintain good performance and achieve success when he can deal with stress. the present study aimed at examining the validity and reliability of anshel and kaissidis’s coping style inventory for athletes. to this end, this questionnaire was translated into persian in several stages and sent to 7 sports psychologists to examine...

Calligraphy collections are being scanned into document images for preservation and accessibility. The digitization technology is mature and calligraphy character recognition is well underway, but automatic calligraphy style classification is lagging. Special style features are developed to measure style similarity of calligraphy character images of different stroke configurations and GB (or Un...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Cognitive style Instructional animation Instructional picture Visualization ATI-effects Multimedia In a 2 × 2 design, we examined the role of visual cognitive style in two multimedia-based learning environments (text plus static pictures/animations). A statistically significant interaction was obtained for deeper comprehension: Highly developed visualizers (HDV) ...

This paper addresses the issue of agent style—proactive and reactive—from a theoretical perspective. The results show that agent style, though often considered key in decision making, only affects the organization's performance when the organization is under moderate time pressure. Further, the effect of agent style depends on the type of training given to organizational agents and the internal...

In this work we investigate different avenues of improving the Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [7]. While showing great results when transferring homogeneous and repetitive patterns, the original style representation often fails to capture more complex properties, like having separate styles of foreground and background. This leads to visual artifacts and undesirable textures appearing in un...